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Instructions · What links here · Comet Spacewatch (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 6 days ago by KyloRen2017 (talk: D · +) · Last edited 5 days ago by TheUltimateGrass

Comment: Insufficient as standalone article - should be included as a subheading under Spacewatch. Dan arndt (talk) 05:34, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Comet Spacewatch may refer to any of the comets discovered by the Spacewatch survey of the Kitt Peak Observatory below:^[1]

Periodic comets

Non-periodic comets

Others

Comet Spacewatch may also refer to a partial reference to comets co-discovered with the Spacewatch Telescope:^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

These also include some active asteroids discovered by Spacewatch but not officially named after it:

References

^ "Spacewatch – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
^ "LINEAR-Spacewatch – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
^ "Spacewatch-Hill – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
^ "Spacewatch-LINEAR – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
^ "Spacewatch-PANSTARRS – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.

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[jpl1-1] "Spacewatch – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.

[jpl2-2] "LINEAR-Spacewatch – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.

[jpl3-3] "Spacewatch-Hill – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.

[jpl4-4] "Spacewatch-LINEAR – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.

[jpl5-5] "Spacewatch-PANSTARRS – JPL Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 28 May 2025.

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